The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 3, 1931, Page 3

Al DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUA RY 3, 1932 Page Thr Long “Vacations” W Daily Worker: The Chicago and Al three months or more (nothing on the land of the free and hom to vacations. Hell we have n wages, CHILD LABORERS EXPLOITED IN THE CLAYMAN SHOE C0. Very Low Wages For) the Young Workers patron Boston, Mass. ‘The Daily Worker: ‘The young workers in the Clayman wages average from 75 cents to $1 a day for the hardest kind of work. Everything is done (with a few ex [ & e § ? s z : i fi ay! Sg i ; i it there are only a i E 4 gs i : i 1 s sane. g Hi Hi s Es 5B Eg f BE g Hl | a i : t a i : i ine § NITGEDAIGET PROLETARIAN VACATION PLACE OFEN THE ENTIRE YEAR Beautital Rooms “Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity _ Proletarian Atmosphere $17 A WEEK CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, N.Y. ithout Pay Is the Lot of McLean County, Ill. Workers; - Unemployed Now Are Talking of Fight: Fully One-Quarter of Workers Are Jobless In Second Richest County Great Need of Men Organizing in M. O. and S. W. I. U. For Militant Struggle Bloomington, Ill. ton gave 700 workers a vacation of was said of with pay). These workers have been back to work only since Dec. 15, before that they had a vacation of five months. The U.S.S.R. has nothing @ of the brave? Wheii it comes othing to worry about, except dodging the collectors. Who the hell wants charity. Work or Bloomington, McLean County, U- linois is considered the second richest county in the U. S. A. But that means very little to we who toil for life. The value of this county, is pointed to by -some workers with pride, but we who see beyond our belly, know that this wealth means nothing to us, One Fourth Jobless. I would judge that there are 1,000 unemployed here out of about 4,000 workers. Conditions are bad in most all shops and small business. The Meadows plant where 300 are work- ing, is only working one and two days a week and wages have been cut about 45 per cent. I guess we ‘are too far west to have known anything about the President and his commis~ sion that ask all heads of big busi- ness not to cut wages nor lay off any men. Well the dam capitalist system becomes worse and worse for the masses to live under and the day is not far off when those fools who think they are a part of the all workers. here. The wages were to be 50 cents an hour. Men some 300 strong await- ed long hours to get a job and then they employed only eight men at 35 cents an hour. We are not going to stand for this kind of a dealing much longer. The boss on the job at the post office makes the men do twice the work they should do and they have been out of work so long and there families have been without food and fuel, the men accept all this, but when you talk to them they say, hell we would. join anything if we knew we could win. It’s coming and soon. Even in the richest part of the farm land of the U.S. A. there is poverty and want pe our minds are beginning to see at something must be done and the unemployed are talking of doing the Oklahoma and-Arkansas act if there is not some change soon and we know that there is no chance for anything to come but more suffering to the workers. For these in control have no feelings for there fellow kind. All they want is wealth and more wealth, Aud I hope to hell they don’t give the workers anything so they wiil rise up and go Soviet. When the next war comes, you’ depend on séme 50 workers at least not joining the band, to help the ex- ploiters, but to fight to make the United States a Soviet of the *arth. ‘8 —Coal Miner, P. S. We are going to form a Wor- corr Club here. WOMEN JINGOES ° FOR WAR ON USSR | WAS: GTON, D. C, Feb. 1— 8 the buorgeois women into active participation.in war prepara- tions, the Women’s Patriotic Con- ference on National Defense launched a vicious attack against the Soviet Union at their closing sessions. resolutions were adopted pledging support of the Fish report. The chief address by F. 'T. Davison, Assistant Secretary of War was fol- lowed by a resolution demanding naval armamient to the hilt. Res- S$ demanding spread of mili- tary training in schools “and summer camps. were adopted. The jingoists were conspiciously silent on the huge mass unemploy- ment and starvation thruout the country. s 8 VIENNA. — While sheer phantasy may be ascribed to many of the claims of one Prof. Oberth who is experimenting with rockets especially for war purposes, the interest he is arousing indicates the development of poison gases as a war weapon. Oberth Claims that’ all war departments of capitalist Europe are watching his PHONE 731 fnclosed find ... EMERGENCY NAME 0.04. ADDRESS .. very closely. RED SHOCK TROOPS For dollars mighty will be taken care of by the) A new post office is being built | experiments with poison gas rockets| for the Protection of Foreign Born, CUT THIS OUT AND MAIL IMMEDIATELY TO THE DAILY WORKER, 50 E. 13th ST., NEW YORK CITY $30,000 DAILY WORK2R EMERGENCY FUND VUNG cee Pewee uueses dpe ete Wd oe kee conts We~pledge to build RED SHOCK TROOPS: for the successful completion of the $39,000 DAILY WORKER |! MASS LAYOFF IN MINE F Phila., Pa. Food Worker Waits Days tor “Jobs” Philadelphia, Pa. Daily Worker: Looking for-a job a la’ Horn and Hardart. One passes into the wait- ing room which is a narrow passage with forms on either side. This opens up into a wider space more sparsely furnished with seating accommoda- tion. Here some of the applicants for jobs have to sit around on pack- ing eases awaiting the pleasure of the “president,” that is, the man giving out the obs. As the workers sit huddled around the walls the conversation turns upon sundry topics. Flophouse Miseries. One worker held forth bitterly upon the pleasures and benefits to be de~ rived at Hoover's Hotel, better known as Baldwin’s Flophouse. As he suc- cintly put it, “I would rather die on the street than go back there.” Hun- @reds took sick as a result of the rotten food and prison-like condi- | tions there, | Hist! There-is a stiffening of at- tention. A hungry. looking man comes out and looks over the job- less with an eagle eye. two or three and then the word goes Tf one hangs around for a week or, ten days there is a faint possibility of getting one day’s relief work, pro- viding the “president” takes a fancy | to you and the rest go away—hungry. DELEGATES LEAVE FOR WASHINGTON Jobless Delegates Hop Freights From West EI vE) (CON D FRO: jgation will be held at 10 a. m. on that date. The delegation will dis- |cuss and adopt the demands to be made upon Congress which are to be incorporated in the bill, and will draft an company the bill which will outline the conditions of the starving unem- ployed workers and poor farmers, a place. the responsibility where it be. longs, upon the exploiting ruling cla agents. Two From Charlotte. have been elected in Charlotte, N.C., J. W. Johnson and-W. M. Dunn, both delegates, Joe DeWeyer, laborer; Cor- nelius, Negro worker; Robert Pace, organizer for the National Textile Workers Union. Perth Amboy, N. J., elected Hans J. Hansen its delegate. He is a mem- ber of the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters. burn, a Negro worker. The steel regions, Ambridge, Pitts- burgh, are now electing delegates. Five delegates will come from Balti- more. Philadelphia will send 10 and Connectiont 10, two having already been elected in New Haven and two in Hartford. Eleven From New York. New York City has elected 11 del- egates, L. Hyman, Sam Nesin, Alex- anderson, Stone, White, Reider, Hor- owitz, Warfield, Lealess, Schechter, Haines. They come from the needle, shoe and building trades industries and from the Unemployed Councils. Several are members of the A. F. of L. Ray Pierce is on his way from Oklahoma City, Okla. The delegate from California is starting his long journey. His name is Patterson and hails from Stockton. The Minnesota delegation consti- tutes the following workers: Ed Mul- tila, copper miner, John Douglas, Du- luth, dock worker; Karl Painter, St. Paul, packinghouse worker; A. C. Johnson, Minneapolis, carpenter. Auto Workers Coming. A partial list of the Michigan dele- gation is at hand. From the Detroit auto center and other cities will go M. Stark, auto worker; M. Kleese, wonlan worker; J. Marshal, Negro auto worker; A. Bissel, young worker; all of Detroit. A. Briggs, a furniture worker will go from Grand Rapids; Shilley M. Rodgers, former member of the U.M.W., an ex-serviceman, now unemployed, will go from Lincoln Park. A. Gerlach of Detroit will lead he delegation. Cleveland, Ohio elected O'Neil iegro worker, Mike Mickelson and +. Miller as delegates. Fight revocation of citizenship. Elect delegates to N. Y. Conference Feb. 8, at the Irving Plaza. He picks out } round “that’s all for today, fellows.” | issue a statement to ac-| the capitalists and their political Two members of the delegation) are textile workers and one a Negro. |. Paterson, N. J., has elected three} Newark, N. J., will send Leroy Wil-} Chisholm, iron miner; W. Zimmer, | Jobless | | | immediate cash relief. showed a militant fighting spirit. Defense Corps to defeat the Will Fight For Relief Despite Police Terror ea A scene at the Newark jobless demonstration, when many thousands marched upon city hall demanding The police were especially vicious against the young~ workers, Make Feb. 10 a mighty demon stration for relief for the millions of unemployed. Police assaults. who, throughout, Organize your Work- On the Job for Daily Worker Subscriptions “I will tr to get more subscrip- tions,” writes Murray Blyne Brooklyn, N. Y. “Keep up the good work! I read our Daily every day.” STARTS DAILY IN UNIVERSAL, IND. S: M. M., of Universal, Ind., is breaking ground in this small coal mining town of about 200 popula~ tion. He now receives.5 copies daily. “There are many such little coal camps scattered from three to ten miles within a radius of 15 miles. If I wasn’t penniless and had a car I could hit all those camps.” Once word gets around that there's a Daily Worker in town, those camps will be hit faster than we | think, | REPORTS FROM GREAT FALLS From Great Falls, Mont., we re- ceived a letter and report which shows the comrades have @ real un- derstanding of how to conduct stea~ dy, systematic work in building up Daily Worker subscriptions and sales, Willis L. Wright, district organizer, writes in reference to subscriptions expiring in the near future: “I am sending out a circular let- ter to every one whom I am not | able to reach personally. I realize the importance of keeping these subs alive.” Following this is a detailed report from J. K., Daily “Worker agent in Butte, Mont., showing . totals of street sales, house-to-house, etc. This enables us to get a picture of the Montana district activities, and to aid it di- rectly in building up its circulation. IN CHRONIC WANT 70 YRS., SENDS $6 “I enclose $6 to extend my sub. It is the best I can do, having lived for the past 70 years in chronic want. I just happen to know the common enemy very naturally.” —H. R. Caspar, Calif. ROCHESTER, MINN., PUT ON THE MAP “Please cancel my standing order and substitute a new order as fol- lows,” writes G. F. P. of Rochester, Minn. “Send 20 copies for Mon- day, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and 25 copies for Friday and Saturday.” G. F. P. shows | | | | ’s on the job, and knows how to use fhe Saturday issue of six pages. TO FORM VS CLUB | A Med Builders News Club will be | organized in the Bronx tomorrow af- ternoon at 3 p.m. at 569 Prospect | luck to the new Club! | STEADY SALES | STA } <contrnunp Brom PAGE ONE) jis no unemployment because the of | Profit hungry capitalists have been hall. | kicked right out of theye. They | begin to wonder if the Soviet system | might not be better than a capi- | talism that starves the workers to/ | death wholesale, and says “nothing | |ean be done-the law does not allow) jus to act.” The jobless demand in an jever rising chorus that something | shall be done. They don't want a| | war on the Soviet Union, they want food. And they are planning mass demonstrations Feb. 10 for their Workers’ Unemployment Insurance | Bill. | . 8 « March On Texas Capital. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Feb. 2.—A state-wdie hunger march on Austin, the capital of Texas, is planned for February 10th. The capitalist press throughout the state, and particu-| larly in San Antonio, has been giving | this proposed march a tremendous | amount of publicity. Governor Ross Sterling has come out with a hypo- critical gesture about “welcomin: A the jobless workers to the capital. | This welcome will probably take the form of black-jacks and tear-gas bombs, when Sterling finds that the | unemployed will not be fooled by his | polite phrases and excuses, but will | militantly demand immediate relief. | Delegations from Galveston, Dal-| las, Houston, San Antonio, El Reno, | Corpus Christi, are expected to take | part in the march. | Word has been received here that | bread riots have started in El Paso, | and delegations are being sent from | San Antonio to organize these El) Paso starving. | Circulars issued by the Trade Union Unity League, point out that every city in Texas is full of jabless, that | poor farmers are being dispossessed | daily, and calsl for united struggle, | and a state-wide hunger march, with | banners, and a demand on the legis- | lature and local governments for cash | relief to the amount of $15 per week for each man unemployed; cancella- | tion of debts and mortgages, aboli- tion of vagrancy laws and chain gangs, etc. * One Red Starts Things. SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, Feb. 2.— There is only one member of the Communist Party in the town of Springfield, Ohio, and singlehanded | he organized a demonstration of 2,000 jobless workers on the public Square on Jan. 24 for immediate re- lief and in favor of the workers’ so- cial insurance bill, “We are going to have another demonstration here,” this comrade writes, “and we shall try to build the Daily Worker. We must have some- thing to give these fellows to show them how to fight.” epee te Tear Gas Fails, AMBRIDGE, Pa. Feb. 2.—Today the Ambridge ‘steel workers and un- , employed. will demonstrate before the borough building and demand that the Borough Council keep its prom- ise made at the last demonstration to do something for the unemployed. ‘The jobless demand that the Borough Council act now o nits list of propo- sitions for immediate cash relief, no evictions, ete., presented last time. . Club downtown will extend a helping hand to the Bronx comrades, and show them how best to circulate the Daily Worker in their territory. Good IN BUTTE, MONT. | Figures in the report from Butte, Montana, receives a bundle of 50) Avenue, All Bronx unemployed work- ers who wish to sell the Daily Worker and earn their expenses are invited to come, Menibers of the Red Bullders News | copies every day. Out of a total of 300 a week, they sell 237 or four- fifths of thelr order—showing the results of regular, systematic sales of the Daily Worker, AOR RO i FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE | declared openly that if the city did pes which William Z, This demonstration, today was ar- | ranged at a mass meeting last week. The meeting started with 200 in the A policeman shot tear gas in | through a rear window, and fled be- fore he could be caught. Half of the crowd was affected by the gas, but they posted a defense corps out- |side and went on with the meeting. Then a detective who had got ine side threw another gas bomb, which filled the room with tear gas and drove everybody out. But they did not disperse. The} crowd grew to 500, who crowded | around the speaker, Edith Briscge, organizer of the Metal Workers’ In- | dustrial League, ready to defend her. | Then Chief of Police Flocker, him- self, drove quickly by in a car and threw a third bomb into the crowd and rushed away. Still it-did: not disperse and finished its business. * Elect Delegates: WASHINGTON, Pa., Feb, 2—About. 200 part time workers and unem- ployed met last week in Millers’ Hall and sixty of them joined the Council of the Unemployed, which was organ- ized after a speaker from the Trade Union Unity League had been en+ thusiastically cheered. ‘The Unemployed Council immedi- ately elected its secretary, and drew | up demands for immediate relief} which a committee will present to the city council today. ‘The Workers’ Unemployment In- surnace Bill was endorsedeand two delegates to Washington, D. C., were elected. They will be ratified at a big mass meeting called for Feb. 5, and they will be backed up by a big mass demonstration on Feb. 10. ‘The unemployed at the meeting not give them relief they were going to take it from the stores. The only relief now being given is a basket of groceries no wand then to some of the families. One worker told how he took an order from the city to an “A. & P.” chain store for ‘suc a basket, and when he put in a loaf of fresh bread from the counter the clerk took it away from him and made him take stale bread instead. Unemployed workers are being evicted and others have their light and water cut off. Those who still work in the tin mill, glass works or mines, usually get two or three days a week with wages at $2 or $3 a day. ew Metal Miners Active. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 2— February 10 demonstrations and hun- ger marches are prepared in this vicinity, and more are being ar- ranged. In Minnesota and St. Paul there will be a hunger march on the state capitol at St. Paul (just over the river from Minneapolis). ~ ‘There will be demonstrations in Duluth, Hibbing, Minn.; Hancock, Mich., and Negaumee, Mich. At Ironwood, Mich., 60 joined the Unemployed Council at a mass meet ing held last week at Palace Hall. A committee of seven was elected to present demands for immediate re- [ELD AND AUTO CENTERS CONTIN UE Arch-Exploiter Ford Lures Thousands (Of Auto Workers to Detroit by False Promises of Work; Men Now Starving Another Bi All Departm Layoff Expected This Week in ents of Plant Join the Auto Workers Union For Fight Against Wage Cuts and Speed Up Editor Daily Worker: Detroit, Mich. Ford is up to his dirty tricks, wage-cuts, layoffs, speed-up and the big lies in the boss paj pers. Ford laid off over 5,000 workers the first week we began to work? The bosses’ papers hid this. ployed think that they are wo Squeeze every penny out of th ) they trying to make the unem- rking. Not only that but they @ workers. The bosses” papers with big headlines say Ford will rehire 107,000 men. They are SE ciaeipenboethnsictccasaces & week in the papers. Starving in Detroit. There are lots of workers still sleeping especially those that. believe in boss papers. They spent every penny they had to get here from all themselves that there was no hiring Many haven't the money to go back so they have to starve and freéze to death in Detroit. Workers that put their life in Ford’s that made billions of dollars the states, but they found out for | for him are not good enough now. He js throwing them out to freeze and starve to death after werking & to 25 years for him. We are waiting for 4 big layoff this coming week from all depart- | ments. | Let's wake up comrades because our death is coming if we don't wake | up in time to unite. ~-A Ford Worker. New York. Daily Worke: | Tf seeing 10,000,000 ynemployed | workers makes me dissatisfied! If seeing 73 breadlines in New York City and a children’s breadline on the Bowery bothers my con- | science! If rebelling against the 2,000 evic- tions in Ne wYork City every week makes m¢ a Ret! If I protest and fight against the capitalist injustice .used against the Atlanta and thousands of other class war prisoners! : Tf when 1 kick against a system Tiches for a few! If I lft up my voice against the brutal terror of the blue-coated cos. sacks against the workers! Fe If fighting against railroading and. killing of workers! willing to work can’t find any work and must live off the sweat and ” $9.50 Week’s Pay Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Editor: T am working for the Dragella Trucking Company which hauls for the A. and P. Co. Last week I worked like hell from 3 a. m. to as late as 6:30 p. m. and all I made was $9.60 for the whole week. ‘They pay $3.35 for bread ‘runs. The truck starts out at 3 a. m. usually with two men on jt although they would like you to do this alone. If a driver and a helper are on the truck, they split the $3.35, 60-40; if there are two drivers, it is split 50-60. It takes until about 10 a.m. to finish the bread run. Then you go on either égg and butter or freight, or salvage. Egg and butter pays $4 per load, freight 60 centa per ton, Salvage 50 cents per load. (Salvage consists of empty boxés and the like from the yarious stores), Philadelphia, Pa, Daily Worker: that influenza is assuming epidemic Proportions.” “Of great significance,” Mansfield, 0. Dear Editor: Since I never see any reports of Brfoyrus, Crestline or Mansfield I'll drop you a few lines. Conditions are going from bad to worse. ‘Wage cuts everywhere. Unemploy- ment growing. lief to the city council. e 2 he In California. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Feb. 2— Mass demonstrations on Feb. 10 are Secra- are going to San Jose and Stockton to help build up demonstrations there. . Expect 10,000 In Denver. . DENVER, Colo., Feb, 2.--Denver jobless leaders expect at least 10,000; in their second hunger march on the | state capitol, which will take place Feb. 10, and will also be a demonstra- tion for the Workers’ it Insurance Bill. The demonstration will in addition advertise the meet+ Foster will ad- % dress on Feb. 11, Crestline, a little farm town, has a P. R. R. shop. The foremen there are regular slave drivers. Most of the work only sbout 1-2-3 days a ‘The town of Crestline {s bossed by the A. F. of L. Central Union. got a popu. Imperial Valley, Gastonia, Centralia, | that breeds misery, starvation, dis- | ease and death for thesmagses and | If J who am young and strong and|, ‘There is A Young Worker Gives His Answer to Fish” blood of my father, an old man. at forty due to exploitation and speed- | up! If seeing my mother getting older and sicklier day after day duyt to a | thousand worries! If getting together with other | workers and putting an evicted work- er’s furniture back in bis home! Tf } raise a cry of protest against | lynch law and Jim Crowisnt! If telling the workers to forget their hatred and nationalitiés and join hands as workers against their coninjon enemy, the bosses! | If] protest against war as a whole- sale slaughter of workers to wake a few profiteers and capijtglists richer! If ] decide to follow the ray of [Mekt and hope blazoned for me across.the seq in the U. S. S. R. by workérs who rose up and got rid of ‘theif gratters and parasites who fed upan then! Well, i{ that makes me a Red then damn. it a Red T am and glad and proud to be one. =A. D. for Truck Driver also equipment work which consists of hauling counters and ice ‘poxes and equipment in general. This work pays by the hour. With all thesa ways of reckoning wages, half th7z time a fellow doesn’t know what he’s doing, and certainly not what he'll make when pay day comes around. When Dregella paid me $9.60 for & week's work, I became angry and asked him what the hell this meant. He told me that the A. & P. com- party did not pay him enough to let him pay any more to his help. Yet the A. & P. advertise that they in- creased the average wage of their employes last year by more than $50. I suppose the big bosses got big raises and then they averaged the raise among all the employes. The workers in the stores haven't re- ceived any raises. i —™M. A. A. “Influenza Is Assuming Epidemic Proportions” he said, “is the fact that 186 other persons were reported as dying from heart disease and it is likely that many of these deaths were precipi- tated by acute respiratory infections.” Forty-two persons died directly from the flue and 128 from pheu- monia during the week. All hospitals and social agencies are making emer- gency provisions as in the opinion of the Health Departinent which does hot desire to appear “pessimistic” the Outbreak. will spread and its serlous- ness is emphasized. ‘The matter of disease can now no longer be brushed aside lightly as has been done previous to today. —c, R. Conlitions Worsen in Bucyrus, Mansfield, 0. lation of about 33,000 and ts the seat of the county and is bossed by the K. K. K. and has 1,500 unemployed i A lot of péople help themselves by stealing chickens. Poor people steal from other poor people, poor farmers from poor farmers. It takes Jong for the farmers to find out where their ’re and 96 Jong gs they as- with town business men which Jobless Women Philadelphia, Pa, Daily Worker: According to workers, women are * Suffer in Silence